Orchestration Enhancements & Tavus Persona Fixes — June 13, 2026

Another long day has gone by at the keyboard, lasting approximately 23 hours. My goal was to reduce some orchestration build out roadblocks and make some improvements to the Tavus persona management system. I’m happy to say I shipped 10 commits today (7 features and 3 fixes). This gets us closer to a more seamless agentic web experience.

Building out the main functionality, I was able to implement an owner’s AI clone as the 5th member of the team in the orchestration setup. This means that specialists can now hand conversations back to the main host. My main priority was to make sure that any specialist conversation can flow back to the owner’s AI without losing continuity and context for the user. I think this will help improve the intuitiveness of the platform.

Lastly, I also set up a way for AI to AI department handoffs which means that agents can now transfer visitors to the right specialist in a collaborative manner. This means that if a visitor needs a specific type of help, they can be quickly brought to the right department agent without any interruptions. In order to get this up and running, I had to deal with a number of bugs, including some miscommunication between the agents during testing. I really appreciate the effort that it took to make this work and I am optimistic about the efficiency that it will add to our portal.

For the Tavus front, I worked on refining the persona dropdown to display only the four department agents that we own and equipped with tools. In the past, the ...